Awards

For his outstanding achievements ADOLF SCHMIDT was awarded various well-deserved honours and distinctions. He was made Honorarprofessor at Berlin University in 1907. The Academies of Berlin, Göttingen and Christiania elected him member, and the German Geophysical Society made him honorary member. The Technische Hochschule (today Technical University) of Berlin-Charlottenburg made him Dr.-Ing. h. c. He was also awarded many decorations.



ADOLF SCHMIDT bust at the Niemegk observatory



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